The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed in Lok Sabha Tuesday. The Bill seeks to provide citizenship to Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who entered the country fleeing religious persecution before 31 December, 2014. Several opposition parties, including the Congress and even the northeast allies of the BJP, have opposed the Bill saying it is "against the fundamental aspects of the Indian Constitution".
ThePrint asks: Citizenship Amendment Bill: Atoning for Partition or religion a criterion in secular India?
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Proposed Bill can be called a revised version of the Akhand Bharat of Hindus thesis
Hilal Ahmed
Associate professor, CSDS
The proposed amendment in the citizenship law goes against this spirit of the Constitution in two ways.
First, it aims to recognise the religion of a person as the prime marker of his/her identity to offer citizenship in the country. This emphasis on religion is highly problematic. The existing provisions of citizenship law...